Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Long Beach, California (one day before the Republican get-together down the freeway in San Diego), will not be so much a convocation as a coronation. It's likely to be as lively as an Electronic Data Systems sales conference. Forget the balloons and funny hats. Backers of Dick Lamm fear that even placards and signs might be banned. The party's national coordinator, Russell Verney, says the convention will play host to only about 1,500 valid Reform Party delegates and is not for hoopla but for decision making. "The enthusiastic part," he says, will be a week later...
...perhaps fitting that the President whom his enemies labeled "Tricky Dick" lived to pass judgment on the President known as "Slick Willy." Throughout the 1992 campaign, Nixon denigrated Clinton: "He's Dogpatch...Even his wife is for him only because he is her ticket to power...[He] will be a disaster. But it will give me leeway to criticize him on Russian aid and everything else he screws up. With Bush I had to be restrained." But when the fledgling President sought Nixon's counsel on foreign policy, Nixon found him "very respectful with no sickening bulls...
...Vitali took almost as much time to tell as Vitali took to perform. While the soap opera content of the Games has been growing ever since ABC's Roone Arledge invented "Up Close and Personal" for the 1972 Games, this year the mush quotient is out of control. The Dick Enberg Moment has become the tail wagging the dog. The spot on fencer Peter Westbrook prevailing over his humble beginnings ran four minutes, and we saw only three seconds of Westbrook actually jousting...
...candidates' response is easy enough to predict. Dick Lamm will say older gophers have to face death like everyone else. Bill Clinton will feel for those little gophers. Bob Dole's comment will be, "Probably the other thing, or whatever." But how about...
...Then Dick Lamm entered the race, in a manner of speaking, and started talking about the long-term effects of unchecked entitlement programs. "It isn't necessary to comment on every new museum that comes along," I said. "You don't see Bob Dole at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...